Saturday, September 11, 2010

1698 erection of St philip's the glebe house History of Charleston

St. Philip's was said to be "large and stately" and tohave a neat palisade around it in Charleston. It shows the good feelingbetween the sects that Mrs. Blake (sometimes, as the wifeof a Landgrave and Proprietor, called " Lady Blake "),who was the daughter of Landgrave Axtell, should havecontributed liberally to the adornment and completion ofSt. Philip's, although herself a Baptist. It was endowedby the piety of that true daughter of the Church, MrAffra Coming, who in 1698 " for love and duty" bestowedupon it seventeen acres of land just outside the walls.This land in Charleston , now covered by the "Middle Western" part ofthe city, has, as Glebe land, been of great value. GlebeStreet and Coming Street in Charleston keep the memory of the gift andthe donor. A large old-fashioned brick house on the eastside of the former street was, until a comparatively recentperiod, the Rectory of St. Philip's, and was always knownas the " Glebe House of the old town of Charleston."